re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This again highlights an issue that has become a rhetorical hobbyhorse for me:

In a lot of nations, you have to have a registered address and have to be able to demonstrate that you are a citizen or legal resident.

This makes it a lot harder for undocumented immigrants to establish themselves, as this proof of citizenship/residence is needed to sign a lease, an employment contract, open a bank account, register a car, enroll a child in schools, apply for social services, etc.

And it would most likely greatly reduce the need for a border wall…

It also makes it harder for citizens who are homeless. I was disenfranchised from 1996 to 2007 because I had no legal address (my car didn’t count, and I didn’t have my car after it was destroyed in a tornado). But our Constitution doesn’t say “you must have a home” to vote.

Hence I could not vote for President Obama in 2008, because I had not yet “established” my home in Oklahoma (according to Oklahoma).